Hi demos30,

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I bought one of these from Gearbest in February. Took a while to get here but am very happy with the printer.
Didnt get charged for customs or any other charges. Think its pot luck and you might get stung if you are unlucky for an extra 20% or more.
Would not recommend this to anyone that is not prepared for some serious tinkering. And the first thing you should do is ditch the power supply as there are many reports of them failing in a cloud of smoke.
While you wait for your printer to arrive search out the official facebook support page for the Anet A8 and get prepared for all the things you will need to do to get this printer working really well.
If that sounds like crazy talk to you then this is not the printer for you - you will need to pay at least double to get something ready to go but thats why this one is so cheap.

A8 is the model number not the printing size. The bed is a good size (think its 220 x 220 x 240mm).

You need to add customs and charges to the price.

I bought one of these from Gearbest in February. Took a while to get here but am very happy with the printer.
Didnt get charged for customs or any other charges. Think its pot luck and you might get stung if you are unlucky for an extra 20% or more.
Would not recommend this to anyone that is not prepared for some serious tinkering. And the first thing you should do is ditch the power supply as there are many reports of them failing in a cloud of smoke.
While you wait for your printer to arrive search out the official facebook support page for the Anet A8 and get prepared for all the things you will need to do to get this printer working really well.
If that sounds like crazy talk to you then this is not the printer for you - you will need to pay at least double to get something ready to go but thats why this one is so cheap.

i ordered a wireless mouse from gearbest and not received anything in 2 months. customer service are useless too.

good prices with gear best..it's best to pay with paypal. that way your money is covered should the item not arrive :smile:

Soooo tempted.
Heat added

Too late ordered :wink:

Isn't A8 really tiny? Could you even print a phone case in this?

Great printer, most definitely not plug & play or for someone with no patience. Invest the time though and you get prints comparable with a machine 4 times the cost.
Price is pretty much average though, I paid that in January

clever

save yourself a lot of needless stress and wasted money don't buy it, i is just a £132's worth of headaches

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=prusa+i3+my+playhouse

Make sure you select the right plug. I updated the plug on a media streamer purchase, switched currency and it reverted my plug to EU which I missed. I then had no end of problems with Gearbest just simply trying to get the PSU. After weeks of trying, the customer service was abysmal with endless excuses and I just accpeted a power adapter I did not want. I'm still irritated about this due to the poor customer service and wasted time. The adapter doesn't fit properly in my tv unit.

Good deal though.

Tinkercad is really easy for a beginner. Solidworks would be the next step up from that. Either of those will be good places to start for creating models.

I use Slic3r Prusa Edition to slice but Cura is also very good.

Highly recommend seeking out the official anet a8 Facebook support page. There's a wealth of info there.

Sounds like a great tip about the Facebook page I have just been having a read there is some tinkering to be done. I've been tempted to get a 3d printer for a while how much would you say it would cost to get this working right from standard? Looking at the Facebook page some of the upgrades can be printed but some others need to be bought. Very tempted by this though, heat added.

I used a spare compote ATX power supply to replace the Chinese fire starter.
A mosfet for the heat bed is highly recommended. they are about £5 on gearbest or £10-15 from a uk supplier.
All they other upgrades are just to improve the quality or speed of the printer and can be done at leisure.
Another point of failure is the heat bed connector. I removed mine and soldered thicker wires directly to the bed.

Do Gearbest sell an auto levelling sensor that works with the A8?

so tempted by this. I've been wanting a 3d printer for a while but they are so expensive. This seems an ideal price to get started

Compatible auto levelling sensor - http://www.gearbest.com/3d-printer-parts/pp_591321.html?wid=21

That's the one I'm thinking off. But it will not be from GearBest. I had that "pleasure" of speaking with their customer support - never again. Even on Reddit the opinion is to buy it 20-30 pound more expensive from Ebay than have a chance to sort problem out over GearBest Customer Suport

if you dont mind me asking, did you go with the free shipping or opt for paid? ive seen many decent deals from Gearbest but dont want to get hit by customs charges :/

Of course I don't mind you asking...I always go for the free delivery.

I've also bought 4 CCTV cameras from Gearbest, but I ordered each one separately, just in case there was a customs charge. I know there is a £ limit under which there is no charge, and as Gearbest ship free, there was no disadvantage to ordering separately.

I paid a little extra for insurance, just a couple of quid. But yes the shipping was free. Arrived by Yodel.

Solidworks is not something for beginners, nor is it cheap. Fusion 360 is similar but free from Autodesk.

I've also used Cura and its support-strut featuresare sub-par compared to something like Simplify3D. But Cura would be a good place to start until you get frustrated with the lack of control.

My mistake. Meant to say OnShape. Always getting those 2 confused.

Simplify3D has some neat features like the excellent support control but i personally don't think it's worth the very high price. Not sure paying almost as much for a slicer as my printer makes a whole lot of sense. The free slicers are just fine and in some ways even better. Slic3r just introduced variable layer height which for me is all sorts of amazing.

Chaps can anyone recommend a good psu as a replacement for the one that comes supplied with this.
I've bit the bullet and ordered one woot woot! Just read up that theres quite a few problems with the PSU that comes supplied with this.

Hi all, thinking of buying my first 3D printer, how does this handle printing multi colour objects? does it support more than one spool of ABS filament or how does that work?

With that build though he went for as cheap as possible which he admitted maybe actually comes out at more than the cheapest pre-built. I watched it and really enjoyed it but be mentioned on so many things why am i using this component rather than something which is known to be better and price was the thing every time. I think the A8 represents pretty good quality and you can print some good upgrades. The biggest worry is the powersupply and heated bed connections.

Be careful guys, this is a kit, there are a lot of self assembly involved. Definitely not plug and play.

It is unassembled DIY kit, provide you an unforgettable step-by-step learning experience of 3D printer from scratch

Unforgettable experience i'm sure :smile: hahahah
Single filament too? hmmm....
No autolevelling ? hmmm
Chinese ? hmmm
Exploding PSU? hmm

Hot for price, cold for the above. Why isn't there a warm option ? :smile:

great price, i contacted them to ask if it supports windows 10, they told me no, no support for 10 as yet, works with xp, win 7, win 8 & 8.1

Does this DIY kit require soldering? I'm naff at soldering lol

I'd avoid Gearbest. My order never showed up, they wanted me to pay a 50% surcharge to re-ship the item, but would not provide any proof of posting or tracking number to show that the item was ever actually dispatched. Aliexpress is normally competitive on price, and provides at least a rudimentary level of protection against fraudulent sellers.

These are meant to be quite good but the acrylic frame can be hit and miss. Sometimes quite fragile and brittle. Other times strong as an ox. It put me off pulling the trigger on it a few months back. If you are the type of person who wants a 3D printer kit and would be happy putting one together (This is in kit form), maybe consider building your own. There is a Youtuber https://www.youtube.com/user/ThomasSanladerer quite well regarded in the 3D printing community. He did a series of live builds using the same parts as this Prusa clone and got cracking results. You can find a BOM and instruction at https://toms3d.org/dolly - Hope this helps someone.

Lol gearbest. Support are complete and utter Muppets. They make sportsdirect and very look good.

Good luck those who ordered.

If you are interested in going even cheaper , check out the TronXY X1

The Tronxy X1 doesnt have a heated bed. That isnt a deal breaker but does mean you wont be able to print with ABS or PETG and even larger PLA items will struggle. Without keeping some heat in the part you are printing they tend to warp which on larger items is a real pain.
Before my Anet A8 I had a Colido Printrite DIY and that was fine (till the bearings wore out after 2 weeks) but I really struggled to print on it without a heated bed. Now I have one I print on glass at 55degrees with a little hairspray and have had almost perfect results.
The Tronxy is interesting though....

What projects or things do you things do you guys make with this? Just out of curiosity?

I am really interested in one, and need a reason to convince myself to get one :smiley: haha

Normally people print a benchy (boat), then more bits for their printer :smiley:

Some ideas.... https://www.thingiverse.com/

Can this print out chelsea fans ?

Annoyingly its now in stock in a UK warehouse and im still waiting for mine to have an ETA on the yodel site, so chances are I will be waiting longer than if I order it now and of course I have no idea if I have to pay any taxes or anything.

Hey guys I use 3DS max and Maya a lot in my workflow, what file structures are we working with here? Will I be able to convert my files into an appropriate format or am I batting for the wrong team here? Just that I'm wanting to get into 3D printing some of my game design models

Yes, excellent. I bought these -
http://www.gearbest.com/ip-cameras/pp_593433.html
Easy to setup and work well with BlueIris software. I would recommend.

The printer arrived 2 days ago no customs surcharges.
Sent from UK :wink:

looks really tempting - I take on board that this is really a "starter" kit which probably needs a lot of work to get it working correctly - the phrase "you gets what you pays for" springs to mind

3d printing is one of those things I've often thought about, but in the absence of any specific projects in mind, it's something I'm going to leave 'on hold' for the moment, and possibly wait anther year or so until the apparent shortcomings are ironed out - eventually the major manufacturers will move in and provide something of a comparative price with half decent support - still voted hot.

GB Isn't perfect by any means, but any issues I've had have been sorted out reasonably quickly and amicably, they wouldn't be my first point of call for any technical support though - they try hard, very occasionally not quite hard enough, but always get there in the end.

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